RFA: Fix readelf -wi test (Was: Re: readelf: apply all rela relocations in the debug_info section)

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Apr 25 09:34:00 GMT 2003


Hi Joern, Hi H.J.

> > Anyway it looks like we need to reduce the text inside readelf.wi even
> > more.  I suspect that the best thing to do would be to delete the test
> > entirely.  Do you agree ?
> 
> It is useful to find regressions like the stray "; ", or readelf giving
> extra warning messages.
> Till we find someone who volunteers to sort the output intelligently,
> we could at least grep for the most salient bits, i.e.:
> grep DW_AT_producer < readelf.out > readelf.out2
> grep DW_AT_language < readelf.out >> readelf.out2
> grep 'DW_AT_name.*: fn' < readelf.out >> readelf.out2
> etc.

That would be good.

HJ - Do you still get failures from this test with your x86 Linux
build ?  If not, then lets leave the test as it is until someone gets
around to rewriting it properly.  Otherwise I will have a go at
reworking it to Joern's suggestion.

Cheers
        Nick



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